SOCIJALDEMOKRATSKA STRANKA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE I JUGOSLOVENSKO PITANJE
THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE YUGOSLAV QUESTION

Summary/Abstract: From the times of Svetozar Marković, i. e. from the seventies of the previous century, up to The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1909, The Social-Democrats in Yugoslav countries were not greatly interested in the pro- biem of national relations in the Ygoslav territories. After then, without penetrating into the essence of inheritance left by the historical tradition of the Yugoslav countries and their peoples separated for centuries, they advocated the view that there was only one uniform Yugoslav people, based upon the fact »that they both spoke the same language and manifested other mutual ethnic characteristics.« The idea of national and cultural autonomy of The Yugoslavs within The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was pointed out at The First Yugoslav Socialist Conference in Ljubljana, in November 1909, and the idea of their political independence within a federation of the Balkan peoples at The First Balkan Socialist Conference in Belgrade 1910. The Social-Democratic Parties in Slovenia and Croatia engaged themselves on propaganda of the former idea while the Social-Democratic Party of Serbia worked on propaganda of the latter one.

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